Russia’s marketing campaign to limit entry to Twitter , Facebook and different sources of uncensored info on its invasion of Ukraine has skipped one essential platform: the social media and chat app Telegram.
Anyone in Russia who needed to comply with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s handle to Congress on Wednesday might discover it on Telegram, together with photographs of Russia bombing civilian areas in Ukraine. Users are decamping en masse to Telegram from banned apps like Meta Platforms Inc.’s Instagram in addition to others which can be underneath menace of being blocked, like Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube.
